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Best Dinner with Friends Restaurants in NoLita

9 ranked dinner with friends restaurants in NoLita, New York City — with ratings, must-try dishes and live availability.

9 picks

These are the 9 best NoLita restaurants for a group dinner, ranked. Pasquale Jones is the pick if you want the surest thing — 4.7 stars across 23,313 reviews. Most of this list stays under $40 a head. If you only order one thing, make it the tie-dye pie (vodka and pesto) at Rubirosa. 3 of the 9 take online reservations, and the live availability badge on each card shows what is actually open tonight.

NoLita packs a lot of good cooking into a handful of blocks, and most of it is in rooms small enough to make reservations worth it.

Pasquale Jones

Pizza  ·  NoLita  ·  $$

★★★★½ 4.7

Pizza in NoLita — 4.7 on Resy across 23,313 diner reviews

📍 187 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012

Rubirosa

Italian · Pizza · Pasta  ·  NoLita  ·  $$

★★★★½ 4.5

The tissue-thin vodka pie that defined a decade of NoLita — Staten Island recipe, Mulberry Street room

Must-try: Tie-dye pie (vodka and pesto), Classic thin-crust pie, Fried artichokes

📍 235 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012

Prince Street Pizza

Pizza · Sicilian · New York Slice  ·  NoLita  ·  $

★★★★☆ 4.4

NoLita's iconic Sicilian square slice shop — the Spicy Spring pepperoni cup turned a classic format into a social media phenomenon

Must-try: Spicy Spring (spicy pepperoni + fra diavolo), Mercer Street Margherita, Grandma slice

📍 27 Prince St, New York, NY 10012

Tashca

Tashca

Spanish  ·  NoLita  ·  $$

★★★★☆ 4.4

a tiny Portuguese room that is somehow only open on Thursdays

Must-try: House martini, Salt cod fritters, Communal tables

📍 151 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012

Thai Diner

Thai · Thai-American · All Day  ·  NoLita  ·  $$

★★★★☆ 4.4

Thai-American all-day cooking on the corner of Mott and Kenmare — the tom yum fried rice, the Thai disco fries, the pancakes

Must-try: Tom yum fried rice, Thai disco fries, Roti and coconut custard for breakfast

📍 186 Mott St, New York, NY 10012

Emilio's Ballato

Italian · Italian-American  ·  NoLita  ·  $$$

★★★★☆ 4.4

The Houston Street red-sauce room with the famously selective door — old New York, still holding the line

Must-try: Rigatoni alla vodka, Veal Milanese, Linguine with clams

📍 55 E Houston St, New York, NY 10012

Oriana

New American  ·  NoLita  ·  $$$

★★★★☆ 4.4

A NoLita corner restaurant doing precise New American cooking in a room built for lingering

Must-try: Seasonal pasta, Whole fish, Martini

📍 174 Mott St, New York, NY 10012

Lombardi's

Italian · Pizza  ·  NoLita  ·  $$

★★★★☆ 4.2

America's first pizzeria, licensed in 1905 — coal-fired Neapolitan-American pies in NoLita

Must-try: Original Margherita, Clam pie, Pie with fresh sausage

📍 32 Spring St, New York, NY 10012

Estela

New American · Wine Bar · Small Plates  ·  NoLita  ·  $$$

★★★★☆ 4.2

A second-floor wine bar on Houston that changed how New York restaurants cook — endive with walnut and anchovy, still

Must-try: Endive salad with walnuts and ubriaco rosso, Beef tartare with sunchoke, Ricotta dumplings with mushroom and pecorino

📍 47 E Houston St, New York, NY 10012

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best dinner with friends restaurant in NoLita?

Pasquale Jones — 4.7 stars across 23,313 reviews, the highest on this list. Pizza in NoLita — 4.7 on Resy across 23,313 diner reviews.

Do these restaurants take reservations?

3 of the 9 book online — Pasquale Jones, Rubirosa and Lombardi's. The rest are walk-in or phone-only. Each card here shows live availability for tonight where the restaurant publishes it.

What should I order?

The tie-dye pie (vodka and pesto) at Rubirosa, the spicy spring (spicy pepperoni + fra diavolo) at Prince Street Pizza and the house martini at Tashca. Those are the dishes regulars point to first.

How were these picked?

Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 7 of the 9 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.